This document provides information on various summer enrichment opportunities for high school students including attending summer programs at top universities like Stanford, taking online courses through platforms like edX, gaining work experience through internships, jobs, or starting your own business, engaging in service opportunities domestically or abroad, conducting independent research with university professors, and using the summer to prepare college applications. It emphasizes finding the right balance with family, academics, activities and application work over the break.

5. • OxBridge
• Stanford
• Columbia
• Brown
• Cornell
• Penn
• Georgetown
✓ 2 - 6 Weeks
✓ Range of Courses
✓ Independence
✓ Room&Board
✓ Academic + Social Experience
✓ Campus Visit

6. Would attending Stanford
summer programs improve one’s
chances for freshman admission?
“We do not have a preference for students who attend
Stanford specific summer programs, but overall, engaging
in enrichment opportunities and advanced courses may
demonstrate your enthusiasm for learning and discovery.
The fact that you are taking summer or enrichment
programs is not in and of itself the value-add to your
application, it is what you take from that experience, how
you share that experience and how that experience has
enhanced your intellectual life that is of importance.”

7. Paying for Opportunities
VS.
Creating Opportunities
Camp
Internships
Jobs
Service Opportunities

8. Service
What opportunities are here locally?
• Example: Gawad Kalinga
• ISM Partners
• Marine Bio options
• Family Connections
• Start your own

9. Service
Other:
• Combination of service + language
• Visions
• UWC - Costa Rica
• Rustic Pathways
• World-wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WOOF)
• HelpX

10. • Seek your own
• Paid vs Unpaid
• 4 weeks +
• Responsibilities
• Final Report

11. • Seek your own / Create your own
• Universities (local or abroad)
• 4 weeks +
• Responsibilities
• Final Report
• What are you interested in?
➡ Have you done research in this area?
➡ Cold call professors at universities.
➡ Just ask!

12. http://www.bu.edu/summer/summer-study-internship/

13. National Outdoor Leadership School
Examples:
Rustic Pathways
Visions

14. Specialized Interests
• Art
• Architecture
• Acting
• Film
• Music
★
RISD
★
Renowned
Programs
★
London
★
Chicago
★
LA
★
San Fran
★
Boston
★
Int’l Cities

15. • Family Trip vs Tour Company
• http://www.tscollegetours.com/
• Tour on your own vs Guided tour
• Variety
• Research the school & programs
• Take Notes - and pay attention to the
little things.
• Interview?
• Questions to ask.

16. What kind of opportunities exist for undergraduates to
work on research or academic projects with professors?
Questions to Ask:
How would you describe the culture of the school/student
body?
Are there a few majors that everybody is studying?
What drives the social life on campus?
In what ways do students connect with and volunteer in
the surrounding community?
What is there to do for fun?
What do you like most/least about the school?
Why did you choose to attend?

17. • Applications
• Essays
• Senior Profile
• Teacher Letter of Rec
Profile
• Update Resume
• Extended Essay
Work on College Applications & IB

18. • Search what is available
(something related to your
interests)
• Summer Camps (Academic or
Activity)
• Amusement Parks
• Sporting Events
• Tutoring
• Retail
• Food & Beverage
• Babysitting
• Start your own!
Work Locally

19. • At least 2 books
• Related to your
academic interests
• Favorite Genres
Read!!

20. http://explorer.opensyllabusproject.org/

21. Summer Enrichment
TASP:
PROMYS:
SSP (
www.summerscience.org/home/index.php
HSHSP:
CCIS:
COSMOS:
MITES:
YSP (Young Scholars Program):
RSI:
Great Books:
Canada/USA Match:
Oxford Study Courses:
National Geo. Expeditions:
http://ngstudentexpeditions.com/

22. Balance Your Time
• Family Time
• Academics
• Activities
• College Applications

23. Questions?